Travel Channel and discovery+ have put a stake in the ground (and possibly a vampire’s heart?) to claim the title as the definitive homes of paranormal and horror content. As far as creating it goes, they do reign supreme —and will continue to do so. Today the streaming service and network announced a full slate of new series, specials, and seasons ahead for their 2022 paranormal programming.
In addition to the impressive development deal with paranormal investigator Zak Bagans, expect to see multiple projects from master of horror Eli Roth and paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne. A new show starring global pop superstar Kesha will join the content anchoring a schedule full of series and specials debuting throughout 2022.
Then they’ll shift the party into high gear come the fall, when the fifth annual Ghostober celebration kicks off with spooky, scary programs. Like they did in 2021 with crossover programming on HGTV and Food Network, Ghostober V fun will once again “bleed” into their sister networks.
“Travel Channel and discovery+ have tapped into what paranormal and horror fans love the most – a huge slate of brand-new content from some of their favorite stars of the genre,” says Matthew Butler, group senior vice president, Travel Channel and paranormal streaming content. “Our fans are true believers, and they can’t get enough of this type of entertainment that brings the chills and thrills, whether it’s on television or streaming into their homes.”
Summer 2022 Paranormal Programming
Bringing the creepies all year long is what fans of Travel Channel and discovery+ expect, and this summer will surely not disappoint. The enduring franchise Ghost Adventures returns for more terrifying lockdowns with paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley.
The supernatural has long interested Grammy-nominated global pop superstar Kesha, and in her new exclusive series for discovery+, Conjuring Kesha, she brings along some of her famous friends on a personal journey to uncover the unknown.
Jack Osbourne and the Ghost Brothers go for round two of Fright Club, where they elevate the chills and cheers with the craziest paranormal videos they can find.
And Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror features two new installments. First, Osbourne goes in search of the elusive Bigfoot with his friend Jason Mewes. Later, he searches for aliens with Mewes and Jamie Kennedy. As you might imagine, both comedy and scares ensue.
Halloween 2022 Ghostober V Paranormal Programming
The ultimate Halloween celebrations return with the fifth annual Ghostober programming event, featuring frightening premieres every night of the week, all month long.
All the stars of paranormal combine in one monstrous month of mayhem, including:
- Zak Bagans and the crew in their annual Ghost Adventures Halloween special
- New, surprising editions of discovery+’s Shock Docs franchise
- New seasons of Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, Destination Fear, and, of course, Ghost Hunters with Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Shari DeBenedetti.
2022-2023 Paranormal Programming
The thrills continue throughout 2022-2023 with more returning fan favorites.
Former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan are back on the paranormal case in a new season of The Dead Files.
Real-life hauntings get retold by the master of horror in the second season of Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life.
Eli Roth and Zak Bagans join forces again in the second season of The Haunted Museum.
And the intrepid team of Dr. Mireya Mayor, Ronny LeBanc, Russell Acord, and Bryce Johnson is currently back in the field searching for everyone’s favorite cryptid in season four of Expedition Bigfoot.
Travel Channel and discovery+ Companion Podcasts
Fans of the genre are also binging podcasts including Urband Legends with the Ghost Brothers and a companion show to the hit series A Ghost Ruined My Life with Eli Roth.
Upcoming companion podcasts will include The Dead Files, Mysteries at the Museum, and The Alaska Triangle.
Travel Channel and discovery+ 2022 Paranormal Programming Breakdown
New Series
Conjuring Kesha
is exploring the paranormal in the new series CONJURING KESHA (wt) for discovery+.
Global pop superstar Kesha has a deep passion for all things supernatural and has spent most of her life searching for answers to the world’s biggest mysteries. Now she is expanding on her fascination with the unknown in a cinematic, hands-on paranormal series chock full of mysterious adventures. Follow Kesha and some of her celebrity friends on a cosmic exploration of the afterlife, as they travel to mind-blowing haunted locations and search for all things unexplainable.
Ghosts of Devil’s Perch
Butte, Montana, is gripped by a terrifying supernatural uprising. To restore order, the mayor and sheriff enlist the help of paranormal investigators Dave Schrader, Cindy Kaza and K.D. Stafford to stop the wave of unnatural occurrences plaguing the historic mining town.
New Specials
Ghost Adventures: Halloween Special (wt)
Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures Crew – Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley – embark on a special spooky two-hour investigation to kick off the Halloween season. After piecing together the location’s haunted history, the team investigates using the latest scientific gadgets and technology in an effort to obtain physical evidence of the paranormal and uncover the truth behind the haunting.
Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: Bigfoot
For years, Jack Osbourne and his friend, actor Jay Mewes, have been curious about the existence of the legendary creature known as Sasquatch, Yeti or most commonly, Bigfoot. Now, they’re venturing into a remote region of northern Idaho, the site of the most reported Bigfoot sightings over the last half-century, to figure out for themselves if Bigfoot is truly an undiscovered creature of North America’s wilderness or simply an age-old legend run wild.
Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: UFOs
Jack Osbourne brings his friends, actors Jay Mewes and Jamie Kennedy, to the edge of the unknown in search of the truth behind UFOs. Utah’s Uinta Basin has been shrouded in mysteries for centuries, with stories of otherworldly visitors dating back to ancient times. In recent years, even stranger sightings have been reported and captured. Osbourne, Mewes and Kennedy embark on an unflinching investigation to figure out if these phenomena are connected and why this strange activity is concentrated in the Uinta Basin.
Shock Docs: Michigan Hell House
It is the greatest paranormal story the public has never heard. From 1974 to 1975, in the small farming town of Merrill, Michigan, the Pomeraning family was tormented by relentless poltergeist activity inside their home. They even battled deadly spontaneous combustion erupting inside the house. Paranormal investigator Steve Shippy, with the help of psychic medium Cindy Kaza, will attempt to find the truth about the evil force that seemed to curse this home and family – an evil that still lives there to this day.
Returning Series
The Dead Files
Former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan are back on the paranormal case. Utilizing his detective skills, DiSchiavi interviews witnesses and experts and researches the history and facts behind each haunted location. Allan, a physical medium who sees and communicates with the dead, assesses the property to identify what underlying entities reside there. Keeping their findings hidden from each other, the team avoids all contact with one another – coming together only at the very end to reveal their shocking discoveries to the property owners, and each other.
Destination Fear
Fear-chasing foursome – brother and sister duo Dakota Laden and Chelsea Laden and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder – hit the haunted back roads of America, spending the night inside the nation’s scariest places. This season, the team drives deeper into their paranormal exploration, using new tactics and experiments to unlock dark secrets and bring them closer to the grim truths behind the hauntings. The journey will test their mental, emotional and physical strength to the extreme.
Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life
From master of horror Eli Roth, this chilling series shares the shocking stories of real-life hauntings that have left emotional (and sometimes physical) scars on those unlucky enough to have experienced them. Equal parts terrifying and evocative, every hour-long episode will expose viewers to the real-life stories of survivors who have been dragged through hell and back and now struggle to rebuild their shattered lives.
Expedition Bigfoot
An elite team of investigators – acclaimed primatologist Dr. Mireya Mayor and Bigfoot researchers Bryce Johnson, Ronny LeBlanc and Russell Acord – journey deep into the unforgiving North American wilderness attempting to encounter the elusive beast. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, eyewitness testimony and decades of experience, they have a unified goal – to uncover the most convincing evidence and prove once and for all that Bigfoot is real.
Fright Club
Jack Osbourne and the Ghost Brothers – Dalen Spratt, Marcus Harvey and Juwan Mass – are back with their hilarious and spooky competition to creep each other out with the craziest, most mind-blowing paranormal videos they can find. They’ll talk with the witnesses who captured the footage and get insight from other experts before voting on each episode’s “nightmare” clip. This season, a slate of actors, comedians and an Olympian join the party to share videos, insight and their own paranormal stories.
Ghost Adventures
Paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley continue their travels to haunted destinations where they meet with locals, eyewitnesses and experts in an attempt to piece together the haunted history of each site. They then begin their “lockdown” investigation, using the latest scientific gadgets and technology in an effort to obtain physical evidence of the paranormal and uncover the truth behind each haunted mystery.
Ghost Brothers: Lights Out
The Ghost Brothers – Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey – flip the switch on paranormal lore by shining their own light on its darkest secrets. The dopest brothers on camera hunting ghosts, these candid and unorthodox paranormal investigators explore iconic haunted hotspots to find out if the legends are really true and if these places are still plagued by the horror of the events that occurred there. They are ready to expose the haunted holdouts hanging around these locations with unconventional experiments.
Ghost Hunters
The renowned TAPS team returns to the paranormal show that started it all. Original Ghost Hunters members Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango, along with Shari DeBenedetti, revisit their most chilling cases and investigate disturbing new hauntings. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, their proven methodology and special guest investigators, TAPS tackle disturbing paranormal activity head-on, leaving no stone unturned to reach the dead among the living.
The Haunted Museum
Produced by Zak Bagans in collaboration with filmmaker Eli Roth, this horror film anthology series presents frightening and hellish tales inspired by the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas museum. Bagans, a devoted collector of the macabre, is opening his museum vaults and sharing the secrets and stories behind a curated selection of his most prized haunted artifacts through scripted shorts produced by Roth and his accredited team, and with featured commentary from Bagans.
UFO Witness
Since the U.S. government released information on its decades of evidence on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) earlier this year, reports of sightings and accounts have only increased. UFO expert and former federal criminal investigator Ben Hansen is joining forces with UFO researcher and journalist Melissa Tittl to uncover the dark secrets surrounding the unidentifiable objects in our skies.
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Phew! Are you ready for all of this? Anything in particular that you’re excited to watch?
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
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I want to watch everything! I’d watch Jack Osbourne hunt for Bigfoot first!
Am I the only one who braces themselves that those Bigfoot hunters are finally going to run afoul of some wildlife out there or fall off a bluff while they’re tramping around in the woods – at night?
People in Alaska have gotten killed just for jogging in the wrong place.
I’m watching, but I’m bracing myself all the same. Some wild things don’t take kindly to people walking up on them. (We walked up on a moose once in Seward and were so lucky that it walked off instead of coming after us!)
Maria, you are so right! My parents and I, all in a raft together, came around a bend in the Tikchik river and startled a grizzly WITH HER TWO CUBS. Fortunately, it took her a few moments to decide to charge us or stay with her cubs, and by the time she charged us, we were in deeper/faster water. I guess we were moving away from her cubs fast enough that she gave up and went back to them. I about peed my pants! I think a Bigfoot would be just as dangerous.
This looks like a fun one! That and the UFO one with Jamie Kennedy. I used to love the Jamie Kennedy Experiment. Not that it will be like that, but he can be a riot so I’m curious to see him with Jack. lol
Maria! You raise such an interesting question. Until you brought it up, I didn’t realize that YES! Whenever a show is out in the woods investigating I hold my breath a lot more and my anxiety increases more with the other shows. The only other time I get nervous for the ghost hunter-type investigators is if they think another person might be in the location. Like I think Destination Fear had that happen an episode or two. Ghosts I don’t worry about. People? Yes! Creatures? YES YES YES! We’ve come across several moose too, once in Anchorage and another time in Denali. Your Sweard experience sounds like our Anchorage one. Luckily the moose stayed laying down when we rounded the corner, but we were right next to it. Like maybe only 6 or 7 feet away? Maybe less. Denali was scarier. They came up through the forest and we had to run up the trail. I had an asthma panic attack. I thought my husband was kidding when he said he saw them coming. We’d only just seen them down at a pond and they’d been a little aggressive to some other hikers. But when they left I didn’t think we’d re-encounter them where we did. It was terrifying! LOVED this comment! Thanks for leaving it and letting me rant back in return. lol
OMG PRISCILLA!!!!!!!! What a terrifying encounter! We were on bikes in Haines when we saw a mama and her two cubs. We stopped to look and one of the cubs put his paw on mama’s rear and stood up looking back at us like, “Look, mom! People!”
That’s when it dawned on me, “Oh crap. This isn’t a zoo. If she decides to charge I’m screwed. Wayne can ride much faster than me.”
That’s when I hopped on my bike and peddled, but she paid us no never mind. Thankfully. BUT your experience! HOLY BLEEP!!!! Thank goodness for the fast current! Did your parents stay cool, calm and collected the whole time or did they freak out a little? Did you all have a good laugh about it afterward?
Hi Court,
No, my parents did not stay cool, calm, and collected.:-) My dad was frantically trying to untie the shotgun (which was secured because we had just gone through rapids), and my mom was on the verge of screaming but doing her best to help steer the raft because there was an eddie to the side with a big beaver dam and all its pointy sticks! But, whew, I guess the bear decided we weren’t worth it.:-)
OMG That story just gets even more terrifying!!!! Holy cow now THAT’S an adventure! I’m so glad you shared this!